JP5925459B2 - Horizontal display information display device and display method thereof - Google Patents

Description

  Embodiments described herein relate generally to a horizontal display information display device that is placed horizontally and displays various visible information such as newspaper articles, and a display method thereof.

  Visible information that humans can read, such as newspapers, is flooded. However, it is often difficult to read all this information in time. Therefore, it is known that a headline is attached in order to efficiently read the visible information and the information is viewed by selecting the heading. However, when there are many headlines, it is often difficult to read the information immediately.

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  In order to solve the above problems, the present invention is capable of viewing a number of headlines while being present, and a horizontal display information display device capable of immediately viewing the information of the headlines of interest, and the display thereof. Provide a method.

An exemplary form status includes information storage means for storing a plurality of heading representing the visible information and the contents of the visible information indicating the article contents, the display screen is horizontally placed on the upper surface, the side the user to see the visual information sits A case having a side and displaying the heading and the visible information stored in the information storage unit on the display screen ; and a touch detection display unit capable of detecting that the display screen is touched. When the headline displayed on the display screen is touched by the touch detection display unit, the position is detected by the headline selection detection unit that detects the position and detects the corresponding headline from the position. searches the heading from the information storage unit, a retrieval display means for displaying the visual information corresponding, the display touch of the screen by the touch-sensitive display means Was it is detected, when released dragged in a predetermined direction, towards the user in the direction of the sides, in that it has, the display direction controlling means for changing the display direction of the heading and the visible information This is a characteristic horizontal display information display device.

It is a perspective view of the horizontal display information display apparatus concerning one embodiment. It is a figure which shows the example of a display screen of one Embodiment. It is a figure which shows the electrical structural example of the horizontal display information display apparatus of one Embodiment. It is a figure for demonstrating that each edge | side of a touchscreen display is pushed. It is a figure which shows the flowchart for demonstrating operation | movement of one Embodiment. It is a figure which shows the example of a screen which displays the corresponding article by touching a headline in one Embodiment. It is a figure which shows the example which touches an article and displays a series of articles over time corresponding to the article. It is a figure for demonstrating the description direction of the headline in another embodiment, and the moving direction of a headline display. It is a figure which shows the example of a display of the example whose heading is not only a text but a moving image and a still image.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. A perspective view of the horizontal display information display device of this embodiment is shown in FIG. The horizontal display information display device 10 is normally placed horizontally, and has a rectangular parallelepiped housing 12 having infrared sensors 11a, 11b, 11c, and 11d that detect, for example, a moving body approximately at the center of each of the four side surfaces. The touch panel display (TPD) 13 provided on the upper surface for displaying the headlines of newspaper articles and detecting the touched position (coordinates) when the screen is touched and the four corners on the lower surface of the housing 12 are provided. It has a roller 14 that facilitates movement of the body 12 and the TPD 13.

  An example of the display screen of the TPD 13 is shown in FIG. On the display screen 16, a plurality of vertically written headings 17a, 17b, 17c, 17d, 17e, 17f,... Are normally displayed so as to flow from left to right as indicated by an arrow 18, for example. Is done. An arrow 18 is a moving direction of the headline display, and an arrow 19 is a heading description direction. Thus, the heading description direction and the heading display moving direction are orthogonal.

  The headings 17a, 17b, 17c, 17d, 17e, 17f,... Are displayed larger as the importance is higher, and smaller when the importance is low. For example, headings are displayed in two types, large and medium. Of course, the size of the heading may be three or more.

  An example of the electrical configuration of the horizontal display information display device 10 is shown in FIG. The horizontal display information display device 10 includes a newspaper article storage unit 21 that stores information on newspaper articles, a headline creation unit 22 that creates a headline for each article in the newspaper, and a headline size determination that determines the size of the headline. Unit 23, the touch panel display (TPD) 13 that normally displays a vertical heading in a size determined by the heading size determination unit 23 (initial setting), and moves from left to right. The user position detection unit 24 that detects the position where the user is sitting by the four infrared sensors, the inclination detection unit 25 that detects the inclination of the display screen of the TPD 13, and the user detected by the user position detection unit 24 A display direction control unit 26 that performs control so as to change the display direction according to the position and the tilt direction detected by the tilt detection unit 25, and the TPD 13 The headline selection detection unit 27 that detects the headline selected by the user touching the selected article search from the newspaper article storage unit 21 for the headline article selected by the headline selection detection unit 27. Part 28.

  The headline selection detection unit 27 includes a display processing unit 27p that performs image processing such as moving, enlarging, or reducing the display content according to a user instruction when the selected article is displayed on the TPD 13 later. Yes.

  The user position detector 24 includes the infrared sensors 11a, 11b, 11c, and 11d shown in FIG. 1, and detects the position of the user on the four sides by using these four infrared sensors.

  The newspaper article storage unit 21 stores electronic information that can be displayed in advance, for example, in the form of a newspaper as a PDF, and headings added to these articles by the headline creation unit 22.

  The article with the headline detected by the search by the selected article search unit 28 is sent from the newspaper article storage unit 21 to the TPD 13 and displayed on the display screen 16. Accordingly, although the headline of each newspaper is usually displayed on the display screen 16 of the TPD 13 so as to flow, if the user selects by touching one of those headlines, the selected article is displayed. For example, it is displayed on the same screen in the PDF display format (see FIG. 5). This point will be further described later.

  Each electric circuit other than the TPD 13 is accommodated in the housing 12 shown in FIG. The headline creation unit 22 may use the headline of each newspaper article stored in the newspaper article storage unit 21 as it is, or may create a headline different from the article described in the newspaper article. Alternatively, another heading may be added in addition to the heading described in the newspaper article. In this way, when other headlines are also added, when a newspaper article is searched by a headline by a keyword or the like, the probability of hitting increases and a search without bias is performed, which is beneficial.

  The headline size determination unit 23 may determine the size of the headline according to the size displayed on the newspaper. In addition, the keyword storage unit 23m is provided in the headline size determination unit 23, and the keywords stored in the keyword storage unit 23m are stored in the keyword storage unit 23m by inputting and storing important keywords. It is possible to re-evaluate the article size in consideration. For example, when the environment is input to the keyword storage unit 23m, the size of an article related to the environment can be displayed larger than that of an article irrelevant to the environment.

Tilt detecting unit 25 is a circuit for detecting the tilt of the display screen 16 of TPD13, it sensed inclination of its are sent to the display direction controller 26. The inclination may be changed by detecting, for example, a piezoelectric element pressing one of the four sides of the TPD 13 or may be changed by lifting the housing 12. When one of the four sides of the TPD 13 is pushed, the pushed side is downward, and when the casing 12 is lifted, the raised side is upward.

  An example of the relationship between the tilt of the display surface and the display content is shown in FIG. In FIG. 4, the arrows indicate from the top to the bottom. For example, an upward arrow 41 means that the upper side of the TPD 13 is pushed, and a downward arrow 42 means that the lower side of the TPD 13 is pushed, both of which see other newspapers. As shown in FIG. 1, the left arrow 43 means that the left side of the TPD 13 is pushed, and the heading display flows from the right to the left, and the past articles are viewed retroactively from the present. .

  The display moving direction of the headlines of these newspaper articles is a direction with respect to the position of the user detected by the user position detection unit 24. That is, for example, when the user's sitting position is detected by the infrared sensors 11a and 11c, a landscape screen is displayed as shown in FIG. 2, but the user's sitting position is detected by the infrared sensors 11b and 11d. Sometimes it becomes a portrait screen. Then, when the user is detected by the infrared sensors 11a and 11c and when the user is detected by the infrared sensors 11b and 11d, the display screen and the heading are moved in the opposite directions.

  The display on the touch panel display 13 of the newspaper article retrieved by the selected article retrieval unit 28 is the same. That is, the retrieved articles are displayed on a horizontally long screen when the user's sitting position is detected by the infrared sensors 11a and 11c, and when the user's sitting position is detected by the infrared sensors 11b and 11d, Displayed on a portrait screen. The selected newspaper articles are displayed opposite to each other when the user is detected by the infrared sensors 11a and 11c and when the user is detected by the infrared sensors 11b and 11d.

  Note that the user may sit at a plurality of positions on the four sides of the horizontal display information display device 10. In such a case, it is also possible to initially set a predetermined side as a position where a normal user sits.

  Then, when the user sitting at that position drags the headline or article content in the direction of the user on the other three sides and releases it, the orientation is automatically set so that the user sitting on that side can easily see It is also possible to change to

  Here, a display when each heading is touched (selected) will be described. A display example of the screen is shown in FIG. For example, assume that the heading 17c is touched on the screen shown in FIG. At this time, the article 51 of the heading is displayed on the foreground at a position close to the heading 17c. Thus, if the article 51 is displayed at a position close to the heading 17c on the same screen, the contents of the heading can be viewed, and each heading can be viewed as it is. Further, for example, when the article 51 is touched, the screen shown in FIG. 7 is displayed. In this screen, past contents 72 corresponding to the current contents of the heading 17c are displayed in a time series, for example, partially overlapping from the lower left to the upper right. In order to perform such display, the content of the article corresponding to the heading is associated with time and stored in, for example, the newspaper article storage unit 21.

  Next, the operation of the horizontal display information display apparatus 10 will be described using the flowchart shown in FIG.

  In step S501, the newspaper article storage unit 21 receives electronic data of a newspaper article from an external transmission destination and stores it.

  In step S502, the headline creation unit 22 adds a headline to each article of the received newspaper. This heading is made, for example, by adding a heading corresponding to the content to a heading included in each article. Therefore, each article contains a plurality of headlines.

  In step 503, the headline size determination unit 23 determines the actual headline size according to the determined headline size of each article. Since there are a plurality of headings before that, one of them is selected and the size of the heading is determined. At this time, the size is determined in consideration of a keyword input from the outside to the keyword storage unit 23m in advance.

  In step S <b> 504, the user position detection unit 24 detects at which of the four positions around the horizontal display information display device 10 the user is sitting. At the same time, the tilt detection unit 25 detects whether the display screen of the TPD 13 is tilted, and the moving direction of the headline display is determined in step S505.

  If the inclination is not detected by the inclination detection unit 25, as shown in FIG. 2, the vertical writing size of the article of a predetermined type is initially set as the initial setting for the user's sitting position in the TPD 13 in step S506. Headlines of different sizes are displayed moving from left to right. This is displayed so that headlines of new articles of each heading appear sequentially from the left. Therefore, the heading in the right part is the heading of a slightly old article.

  When the tilt detection unit 25 detects that the display screen is tilted to the left, for example, the headline of each article is moved and displayed in the left direction. When it is detected that the head is tilted upward or downward, another newspaper headline is displayed.

  This moving display of the heading is continued until the user touches any of the headings. In step S507, when the headline selection detection unit 27 detects that any headline of the newspaper article is touched, the selected article search unit 28 accesses the newspaper article storage unit 21 in step S508, and handles the headline. Search for articles.

  In the next step S509, the article portion searched in the newspaper article storage unit 21 is displayed on the TPD 13 with the center. FIG. 6 shows the display state of the selected article. In this display, when the content of an article is relatively small, the article 51 is displayed in a text format beside the headline selected by touching on the screen displaying each headline. When this article 51 is displayed, the movement of each heading stops. The movement of each heading is resumed from the state where the article is no longer displayed.

  In this display, when an article to be searched and displayed occupies a large area, the display part of the article 51 can be moved by touching and moving the display screen with a finger or the like. Moreover, the article 51 corresponding to the heading shown in FIG. 6 can be enlarged by touching with two fingers to widen the space between the fingers. These image display processes are performed by the display processing unit 27 p in the headline selection detection unit 27.

  The article 51 shown in FIG. 6 can be displayed as a continuous article from the past as shown in FIG. 7 by touching the area. In this example, article contents from the past to that point are displayed in a form that partially overlaps from the upper right to the lower left. By touching a specific article 63 among consecutive articles, it can be displayed in the foreground and the contents can be read. In this way, it is possible to easily browse the current contents (FIG. 6) and the past article contents (FIG. 7) corresponding to the article from the headline.

  For example, a “return” icon 65 is displayed in the left corner of the display screen 16. When the user touches the “return” icon 65 in step S510, for example, the process returns to step 506 to resume moving and displaying the headline of the newspaper article.

  Further, after a newspaper article is displayed, processing such as movement, enlargement, and reduction is not performed, and even when a predetermined time, for example, 5 minutes elapses, the process returns to step S506 to resume the moving display of the headline.

  As described above, the headline of each newspaper article can be moved and displayed, and the contents of the article selected by the user can be freely displayed and read.

  In the above embodiment, the newspaper article is temporarily stored in the newspaper article storage unit, and then the headline of the article stored in the headline creation unit is created. However, the headline of the newspaper article may be acquired together with the newspaper article in advance and stored.

  In the above embodiment, the headline is displayed on the touch panel display for the newspaper article, the touched headline is detected, and the selected newspaper article is displayed. However, the target information is not limited to newspaper articles, and may be other information. Generally, it may be visible information that can be read by humans.

  In the above embodiment, an example in which a touch panel display is used as the display device has been described. However, a display device that can display visible information and can detect the position when the user touches with a finger or a tool may be used instead of a touch panel display.

  In the above-described embodiment, the example in which the vertical heading is displayed so as to move from the left to the right as the initial setting has been described. This display is most natural because new events usually appear to appear from the left. However, it is also possible to display the vertical heading so as to move from the right to the left. In this way, there is an advantage that many headlines can be displayed on one screen. However, the heading description direction and the heading display movement direction are not limited to this.

  For example, as shown in FIG. 8, on the display screen 16, it is also possible to display the horizontal writing heading as an initial setting so as to move from the top to the bottom. In this example, the description direction of the headline is horizontal writing, which is described from the left to the right as indicated by the arrow 71, and the display is moved from the top to the bottom as indicated by the arrow 72. Or it displays so that it may move from the downward direction to the upward direction. The display direction control is performed by, for example, the display direction control unit 26 shown in FIG.

  Furthermore, for example, a vertical headline may appear and be displayed so as to move obliquely from the rear to the front. In short, there is an advantage that many headings can be displayed on one screen by setting the heading description direction and the heading display moving direction to directions orthogonal to each other.

  By the way, in the said embodiment, the case where a headline was a normal sentence (text) was demonstrated. However, the headline is not limited to the text format, and may be a still image, a photo, or a moving image, or a still image, a photo, or a moving image may be associated with the headline text. FIG. 9 shows an example of the display.

  In FIG. 9, in addition to the text format headings 87a, 87b, 87d, a moving image format headline 87c is moved and displayed in the direction of arrow 88 in the same manner as other headlines. A still image 87b1 is displayed in the vicinity in association with the sentence format headline 87b.

  In general, if the headline is expressed in text, the number of characters is limited and it is difficult to express the content of the article sufficiently, but the viewer can intuitively understand the content of the article when displayed as a still image or video In this respect, there is an advantage that user-oriented display is possible.

  Although several embodiments of the present invention have been described, these embodiments are presented by way of example and are not intended to limit the scope of the invention. These novel embodiments can be implemented in various other forms, and various omissions, replacements, and changes can be made without departing from the scope of the invention. These embodiments and modifications thereof are included in the scope and gist of the invention, and are included in the invention described in the claims and the equivalents thereof.

10 .... Horizontal display information display device,
11a, 11b, 11c, 11d... Infrared sensor,
12 .... Housing,
13 .... Touch panel display (TPD),
14 ... Roller,
17a, 17b, 17c, 17d, 17e, 17f ... headings,
21 ... Newspaper article storage
22 ... headline creation part,
23: Heading size determination unit,
23m ... keyword storage unit,
24: User position detection unit,
25... Tilt detector,
26: Display direction control unit,
27: Heading selection detection unit,
27p ... display processing unit,
28: Selected article search unit.

Claims (14)

Information storage means for storing visible information representing article content and a plurality of headings representing the contents of the visible information;
A display screen placed horizontally on the upper surface, having a side on which a user who sees the visible information sits, and a casing for displaying the heading and the visible information stored by the information storage means on the display screen ;
A touch-sensitive display means capable of detecting that it has been touched on the display screen,
When a headline displayed on the display screen is touched by the touch detection display unit, a headline selection detection unit that detects the position and detects a corresponding headline from the position;
Search display means for searching the headline detected by the headline selection detection means from the information storage means and displaying the corresponding visible information;
When the touch detection display means detects that the display screen has been touched and is dragged and released in a predetermined direction, the display direction of the heading and the visible information is directed toward the user on the side in that direction. Display direction control means for changing
A horizontal display information display device comprising:   2. The horizontal display information display device according to claim 1, wherein a side of the casing on which a user sits is predetermined.   The horizontal display information according to claim 1, further comprising: a user position detection unit that includes detectors respectively provided corresponding to the side edges of the casing, and that detects a side of the casing where the user is sitting. Display device. The horizontal display information display according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the search display means displays the visible information corresponding to the headline detected by the selection detection means in the vicinity of the heading. apparatus. When said visible information is touched, further articles corresponding to the article contents in different screen as the screen being displayed in the title, according to claim 1 to 4, characterized in that the time series display The horizontal display information display apparatus in any one of . The headline text, video, horizontal display information display device according to any one of claims 1 to 5, characterized in that a still image is any form of photography. The heading text and, moving, horizontal display information display device according to any one of claims 1 to 6, characterized in that a still picture, photo is any combination. An information storage unit that stores visible information representing the content of an article and a plurality of headings that express the contents of the visible information in short sentences;
A display screen is placed horizontally on the upper surface, and includes a touch panel display capable of displaying the heading and the visible information stored by the information storage unit and detecting that the display screen is touched , A housing having a side on which a user viewing visual information sits;
When a headline displayed on the display screen of the touch panel display is touched, a headline selection detection unit that detects a corresponding headline from the touched position;
A search unit for searching the headline detected by the headline selection detection unit from the information storage unit and displaying the corresponding visible information on the display screen ;
When it is detected that the display screen has been touched and dragged and released in a predetermined direction, the display direction is changed toward the user in that direction, and the heading and the visible information are changed to the description direction of the heading. A heading display direction control unit for displaying while moving in an orthogonal direction;
A horizontal display information display device comprising: 9. The horizontal display information display device according to claim 8, wherein a side of the housing on which the user sits is predetermined. 10. The horizontal display information display device according to claim 8, wherein the visible information is a newspaper article. The horizontal display information display device according to any one of claims 8 to 10, further comprising a heading size determination unit capable of changing a size of the heading displayed on the display screen of the touch panel display. . The case has a rectangular shape, and further includes a user position detection unit that detects which side of the four sides of the case is close to the user,
The headline display direction control unit displays the headline in a direction in which the headline can be read with respect to a position where the user is present, and moves the headline in a predetermined direction to display on the display screen. Item 12. The horizontal display information display device according to any one of Items 8 to 11 . The image displayed on the display screen, by touching the display screen, the horizontal display information display device according to claim 12, wherein the movable. Information storage step for storing visible information representing article content and a plurality of headings representing the content of the visible information in the information storage unit;
A display step of displaying the heading and the visible information stored in the information storage step on the display screen of a housing having a display screen placed horizontally on an upper surface and having side edges ;
A touch detection step of detecting that the display screen is touched;
When it is detected that the display screen is touched by this touch detection step, a headline selection detection step of detecting the touched position and detecting a corresponding headline from the position;
A visible information display step of searching for the headline detected by the headline selection detection step from the information storage unit and displaying the corresponding visible information on the display screen;
When the touch detection step detects that the display screen has been touched and is dragged and released in a predetermined direction, the direction of display of the heading and the visible information is directed toward the user on the side of the direction. Changing display direction control step;
A display method for a horizontal display information display device, comprising:

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